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One Direction Spokesman Won’t Confirm Hiatus Report
A spokesman for One Direction has declined to comment on a report that the chart-topping boy band will take an indefinite break starting in March.
Publicist Simon Jones said he wouldn’t comment on “speculation.”
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The Sun newspaper reported Monday that band members would go separate ways for at least a year after finishing a tour this autumn and promoting their fifth album.
One Direction formed in 2010 after five teenagers – Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik – auditioned individually for the British TV talent show “The X Factor.” Simon Cowell had the idea of putting them together as a boy band, and they became one of Britain’s most successful musical exports.
Speculation about a split grew after Malik quit the group earlier this year, but the other members said they planned to continue as a quartet.
One Direction is currently on the North American leg of a tour that is due to end Oct. 31 in Sheffield, England.